Seasonal Changes in MS Symptoms

Multiple sclerosis, the disease, is different for everyone. MS symptoms are different as well. Then, for kicks, let’s throw in terms like disease activity, MS progression or progressive/remitting MS and we’ve got a soup that bubbles vile, like a Hecate’s caldron!

As we move, in earnest, from one season to the next I have read from many of your comments how your MS symptoms change. Many are affected by summer’s heat while others revel in the freedom the warmth gives their muscles. Winter’s bite is a breath of cool freshness to those who are heat-sensitive and a cursed vice to others.

Some have reported that even exacerbations seem to happen more frequently (or even repeatedly) at particular times of year.

Other than heat sensitivity, I must admit that my multiple sclerosis seems to have no particular rhyme or reason for when it fits and when it starts. It just does what it’s going to do, when it’s going to do it.

The stresses of the holidays are often cursed by those living with MS; but really find me a person who doesn’t bemoan certain aspects of that time of year… particularly as we already see skeletons being replaced with reindeer and haunted houses with Santa’s Workshop!!!

‘Tis a time for sipping hot cider in the pumpkin patch and looking over our shoulders at the summer past and gazing past the falling leaves, if we squint, to the first flurries of snow.

Let us then talk this weekend about the way in which the seasonal changes change our MS, its symptoms and our ability to get around and get on with our lives…

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Trevis Gleason

Trevis L. Gleason is a food journalist and published author, an award-winning chef and culinary instructor who has taught at institutions such as Cornell University, New England Culinary Institute and...read more